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Thread #160727   Message #3814699
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
14-Oct-16 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: What does 'anti-semitism' mean?
Subject: RE: BS: What does 'anti-semitism' mean?
It is perfectly possible to criticise the analysis I presented, as I indicated was the case. But that is not in fact relevant. My point was that there is nothing in it that relates to hostility towards Jews as Jews. If the inhabitants were predominently Mormons or Plymouth Brethren, that in itself would make no difference to the analysis, and there would be no grounds for thinking it implied any hostility towards members of those religions, or that in originated in such hostility.

If somebody were to regard Israel as illegimate or be hostile to it, because it was Jewish, that would indeed he antisemitic. But that is not what critics of Israel, or indeed those who challege its legitacy can fairly be accused of, or even are accused of in the context of the Labour Party. That is the case regardless of whether their objections stand up in face of examination or not.